Gotta love Miss Oprah for practicing what she preaches after investigating puppy mills and exposing the awful practices of the dog industry/pet stores. For her birthday this year, she rescued two springer spaniels from PAWS Chicago. Sunny and Lauren are now two of the luckiest dogs in the world (along with my dogs of course!)  [...]

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January 18th, 2010 by Anne | holiday, just for fun

Yesterday was a big organizing day in our household. Our goal in 2010 is to get through our house room by room and get rid of stuff we aren’t using so we can be more organized. (Thanks to Oprah’s show with Peter Walsh and Clean House for the inspiration!) We did great yesterday…Don took a [...]

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I was practically speechless as I watched Oprah last Friday.  She profiled a program called Puppies Behind Bars that is beyond amazing.  The program takes dogs at 8 weeks and matches them with an inmate who then trains these dogs for sixteen months.  The inmates spend valuable time socializing each dog as well as training [...]

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March 24th, 2009 by Anne | art

When I was in elementary school, we did an art project where we traced each other’s shadow onto paper and then colored it. I was so proud of it!  I was sent down memory lane when I saw these great dog silhouettes in O Magazine.  Karl Johnson will take any picture and create these modern [...]

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Meet Sadie!  She is Oprah’s new RESCUE puppy!!!  What an adorable little cocker spaniel she is!  She was adopted from PAWS  Chicago, an amazing no kill organization!

I love Oprah for staying with the message to rescue instead of going to a pet store.  The fact is that there are millions of homeless animals-why not help [...]

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